National Republican., 1887-01-03
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worldly pleasures God gives US. When you
Ieeovnt your enjoyments you. do not go far
time when You were an infant i in ~ your % mothers
arms, looking up into the heaven Of her
sraile; to those days when you filed the house
when you shouted as you pitched the bali on
the playground; when, on the cold, sharp win.
ter night, mufiied up, Oh skates, you shot out
you, forgotten all those good days that the
Lord gave you? Were you never a boy? We're
you never girl? Between those times and
this h9w hoy many kind
many joys have breathed, up to you from the
flowers, and shone down to you from
e the SGs Soee Of Pna SOARING s4d to
cascade, and booming sea, and thunders that
with bayonets OF fire charged down the noun
tain sidel joy JOY Joy! Ifthere Is anylone
II is the Christian, for God has given him
lease to everything in the ,Promise; "All are
yours" But ! have to tell you, that man
who estimates his life on earth by mere worldly
qualification is a most unwise man. Our life is
not to be game of chess. 1t is not dance in
lighted hall to- quick music. It is not the
Of wine cup. It is not banquet with intox-
ication and registering. 1t is the first step on a
ladder that mounts into the skies, or the first
abyss. SO that in this world we are only key
ing up the harp Of a rapture Or forging the
chain of bondage. And standing before you
the other, song on the one side and groaning
on the other, mansions on the one side and
dungeons on the other, heaven on the one side
ton Of the text: aHow Old art thouP'a TO.
ward what destiny are you tending and how
fast are you getting on toward it?
Again I remark that there many who esi-
their misfortunes., Through a great many of
your lives the ploughshare hath gone very
deep, turning up u terrible furrow. You have
hft and atarAp NAA ,.N
upon, and slapped OF imperlinence, and
pounded OF misfortune. The brightest life
must have its shadows, aud the smoothest
hawk ponhces. No escape @ Ias' rom trouble % of Of
some kind. While glorious John Milton was
losing his eeyesiSht he heard that salmasius
being enacted in Drury Lane Theater, Climber
land, his enemy, sat growing at II In the stage
box. While Bishop Cooper was surrounded by
the. favor of learned men. his wife took his
anxiety and t0il-and threw 1t into the fire.
Misfortune. trial, vexation for almost everyone.
Pops, appla1ded Of all the world, has stoop
he has tunnel dug, SO that he may go un05-
served from garden to grotto and from grotto
70 garden. Csno, the famous Spanish artist, is
difgusted with the crucifx that the priest
holds before him because 1t Is such a
sometimes through taste, and sometimes
through physical distresses, aye, In ten thou-
sand ways. troubles come to harass aud annoy.
Ana yet II is unfair to measure mans life by
his misfortunes. because while there Is one
stalk of nightshade there are fifty marlgolds
and harebells; where there Is one cloud thun-
der.charged there are hundreds that stray
asleep In their bosom. Because death came
and took your child away. did you immedi-
aely forget al the five years, or the ten years,
night for kiss, all the tones Of your heart
pealing forth at the sound of her voice or the
son tonch of her hand? Because In some
be bnshGai EsroSeydon your fortune 3 went into
which the Injuries and extravagances of LIE
showered on your pathway Alas! that Is an
fi unMise man nn ungratehil man, an unphilo-
an uhehrlstian man, who measures his life on
eafih by groans, and tears, and dyspeptic 0t,
gic thrust.
Again: remark that there are many people
VINO Estimate their life on earth by the anoint
Of imoney they have accumulated. They say
VINE year Saac isSS So or is,S or 1856 was wasted
and insincerity TO talk against money as
though II had no value II Is refinement, and
ings. It the spreading of the table that feed,
your ehildren,s hunger, IL Is the lighting of
the, furnace that keep. you warm, It the
making 81 the bed on which you rest from care
you TO decent sepulture, and the putting up OF
the slab OF, which Is chiseled the story Of Your
chTlsNhu nope. III is simply hypocrisy this
TRADE in pulpit and lecture hall, against mo-
ney, as though 1t had no uses. 1t Is hands and
feet, and sails, and ten thousand grand and
glorious enterprises. But while all this Is so,
ne who uses money, ortbinks OF money as any
thing but means 10 an end will find out his
ni'take, when the gttering treasures slip out
Oh ms neryeless grasp, and hegoes out OF this
world without shilling of money or q certih- |
cate OF stock. He might better have been the
Christian porter that opened his gate, or the |
begTimed workman who last night heaved the |
coal into his cellar. Bonds and mortgages and |